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Praying the Psalms (By Thomas Merton)

by Thomas Merton

Merton shows us how to draw out the richness of worship from the psalter and to use it to achieve "the peace that comes from submission to God's will and from perfect confidence in him".......Catholic Review Service.

The Prophet

by Khalil Gibran

A brilliant man's philosophy on love, marriage, joy and sorrow, time, friendship and much more. Originally published in 1923 - translated into more than 20 languages. With 12 full page drawings by Gibran.

The Seven Storey Mountain

by Thomas Merton

This publication is the complete and unedited edition of Thomas Merton's autobiography. It tells of a life spent in devotion, and offers insights into the religious experience.

No Man Is an Island

by Thomas Merton

Here, in one of his most popular of his more than thirty books, Thomas Merton provides further meditations on the spiritual life in sixteen thoughtful essays, beginning with his classic treatise "Love Can Be Kept Only by Being Given Away." This sequel to Seeds of Contemplation provides fresh insight into Merton's favorite topics of silence and solitude, while also underscoring the importance of community and... (more)

Lame Deer, Seeker of Visions (Enriched Classics)

Lame Deer, Seeker of Visions (Enriched Classics)

by Richard Erdoes, John Fire

Lame Deer Storyteller, rebel, medicine man, Lame Deer was born almost a century ago on the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota. A full-blooded Sioux, he was many things in the white man's world -- rodeo clown, painter, prisioner. But, above all, he was a holy man of the Lakota tribe. Seeker of Vision The story he tells is one of harsh youth and reckless manhood, shotgun marriage and divorce, history... (more)

When the Trees Say Nothing: Writings on Nature

When the Trees Say Nothing: Writings on Nature

by Thomas Merton

Millions know Thomas Merton as the author of The Seven Storey Mountain, the autobiography that became an international bestseller and a modern spiritual classic. Merton, a prolific spiritual writer and social activist, inspired a generation from the silence and solitude of a Trappist monastery. Decades after his death, he remains a modern spiritual master, a source of wisdom on peace, racial harmony, poverty,... (more)

Advent and Christmas With Thomas Merton (Redemptorist Pastoral Publication)

Advent and Christmas With Thomas Merton (Redemptorist Pastoral Publication)

by Thomas Merton

"It is important to remember the deep... seriousness of Advent, when the mendacious celebrations of our marketing culture so easily harmonize with our tendency to regard Christmas, consciously or otherwise, as a return to our own innocence and our own infancy...." So wrote Thomas Merton, the mystical Trappist who was probably the most famous American monk of the 20th century. Here, some of Merton's writings on... (more)

Thomas Merton Reader

by Thomas Merton

A profile of Merton as a thinker, writer, poet, peacemaker, and social critic contains significant selections from his famous and lesser-known works and considers such topics as war, love, Eastern spirituality, monastic life, and solitude. Reissue.

Skeptics and True Believers: The Exhilarating Connection Between Science and Spirituality

Skeptics and True Believers: The Exhilarating Connection Between Science and Spirituality

by Chet Raymo

A noted science writer argues passionately and persuasively that science and religion are mutually reinforcing ways of experiencing the world--and that words such as God, grace, sacred, and spirituality can retain currency in an age of science, once they have been stripped of their archaic meanings.

The Search for Common Ground (A Howard Thurman book)

The Search for Common Ground (A Howard Thurman book)

by Howard Thurman

Howard Thurman's book on community. In this book, Thurman calls us at once to affirm our own identity, but then to look behind that identity to that which we have in common with all life.

The Wisdom of the Benedictine Elders: Thirty of America's Oldest Monks and Nuns Share Their Lives' Greatest Lessons

The Wisdom of the Benedictine Elders: Thirty of America's Oldest Monks and Nuns Share Their Lives' Greatest Lessons

by Mark W. McGinnis

This intimate, vibrant, and deeply moving portrait of monastic life in America today examines the long-debated question of whether the spiritual life can be led in the everyday world or whether it must, in its highest and truest forms, involve an ascetic life of renunciation, stern discipline, and celibacy. Thirty elders of the Benedictine Order share their touching and thought-provoking life stories, from the... (more)

Climbing Brandon: Science and Faith on Ireland's Holy Mountain

Climbing Brandon: Science and Faith on Ireland's Holy Mountain

by Chet Raymo

An acclaimed science writer celebrates an enduring symbol of Ireland’s Celtic past, Christian tradition, and love of nature Mount Brandon is one of several holy mountains in Ireland that attract scores of believers and secular trekkers from around the world. For thirty-two years, Chet Raymo has lived part of each year on the Dingle Peninsula, near the foot of the mountain, and he has climbed it perhaps a hundred... (more)

Waters Of Siloe (Harvest/Hbj Book)

by Thomas Merton

An examination of the roots of the Cistercian Order, founded in 1098, its development and waning, and the seventeenth-century reforms by the Abbé de Rancé, which began the second flowering that continues today. Throughout, Merton illuminates the purposes of monasticism. Index; photographs.

The Sign of Jonas, the Journals of Thomas MertonThomas Merton

The Sign of Jonas, the Journals of Thomas Merton

by Thomas Merton

Head First: The Biology of Hope and the Healing Power of the Human Spirit

Head First: The Biology of Hope and the Healing Power of the Human Spirit

by Norman Cousins

Cousins' pionering account of his personal triumph over severe illness was the precurser of hundreds of articles and books dealing with the mind's ability to influence the body's health. Head First depicts Cousins' 10-year quest to find the proof that positive attitudes are actually biochemical factors which combat disease.

A Way Out of No Way: The Spiritual Memoirs of Andrew Young

A Way Out of No Way: The Spiritual Memoirs of Andrew Young

by Andrew Young

A Young black man reaching maturity in the early 1950's, Andrew Young made decisions that led him to the ministry and on to the forefront of the civil rights movement of the early 1960's. He marched with Martin Luther King, Jr. through the streets of Birmingham and Selma, and he was with King when King was assassinated. Young's continuing work as a leader in the civil rights movement has enabled him to serve as a... (more)

The Courage for Truth: The Letters of Thomas Merton to Writers (The Thomas Merton letters series)

The Courage for Truth: The Letters of Thomas Merton to Writers (The Thomas Merton letters series)

by Thomas Merton

In this fourth volume of correspondence, readers discover "the literary Merton," who had a passion for writing, as well as "the whole Merton"-monk, social critic, friend. Selected, edited, and with an Introduction by Christine M. Bochen; Preface by William H. Shannon; Index.

A Life of Search

by Elton Trueblood

In brief, this book is a collection of "Trueblood signposts," hewn from the faith which wore out numerous chisels. Sharing out of a lifetime of study and reflection, and as a committed Christian who firmly believed that "Christians can out-think all opposing philosophies," he writes simply, yet profoundly, about what he learned on his journey. Out of the trustworthiness of his own spiritual experience, interacting... (more)

The Oxford Book of Prayer (Oxford Books of Prose)

The Oxford Book of Prayer (Oxford Books of Prose)

Despite the anxious and ubiquitous materialism of the modern world, the practice of prayer and meditation remains a source of both relief and inspiration for millions. This unique compilation of over 1,100 prayers combines the traditional with the modern, stretching from the Bible, the saints and mystics of the past, and the Book of Common Prayer, to a Ghanaian fisherman's prayer, and prayers from many influential... (more)

Prophesy Deliverance: An Afro-American Revolutionary Christianity

Prophesy Deliverance: An Afro-American Revolutionary Christianity

by Cornel West

"Prophesy Deliverance! is an exhilarating and challenging intellectual exercise. Cornel West takes the philosophic enterprise, the quest for the right way to live, with utmost seriousness, and has given us an impressive blueprint toward a framework that would meet questions o human living. His book is one of the most important and sophisticated statements in the field of Black Religious Studies in recent years".... (more)

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